Marin Boney

Practices

Overview

Marin Boney is an antitrust and competition partner in Kirkland’s Washington, D.C. office. Ms. Boney regularly represents clients before the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice in complex merger reviews and government investigations. She also counsels clients on a range of business issues, including joint ventures, pricing, and distribution agreements. Ms. Boney has represented clients in a wide variety of industries, with particularly strong experience in software and technology, energy, healthcare, and consumer products and services transactions.

Before law school, Ms. Boney was an analyst at the economic consulting firm Lexecon Inc. (now part of Compass Lexecon).

Experience

Representative Matters

Software & Technology

Grubhub, Inc. in its acquisition of Yelp’s Eat24 online food ordering business

Vista Equity Partners in its $1.65 billion acquisition of Cvent; combining Cvent and Lanyon to create the largest supplier of meetings and events software; the transaction was cleared with no remedies imposed after an extensive Second Request investigation

Epiq Systems in its $1 billion sale to OMERS Private Equity and Harvest Partners, combining Epiq and DTI, two leaders in the e-discovery software space

Dealersocket in its acquisition of assets divested by merging parties Cox Enterprises and Dealertrack under a DOJ consent order

Accenture plc, in the sale of its Navitaire airline reservation software business to Amadeus, clearing the transaction through U.S., U.K., and EU reviews, and in various other transactions

Thoma Bravo in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Compuware and in its acquisition of Riverbed

Infineon Technologies in its $3 billion acquisition of competitor International Rectifier, combining two leading worldwide suppliers of power semiconductors

Metavante Technologies in its $10 billion acquisition by Fidelity National Information Services, which was cleared without a remedy after a full Second Request investigation

Energy

WGL Holdings in connection with its $6.4 billion sale to AltaGas, Ltd.

Avista Corporation in its pending $5.3 billion sale to Hydro One Limited

GenOn in its pending sale of the Choctaw Energy Facility to Entergy

The Blackstone Group and ArcLight in connection with the $2.17 billion acquisition of four Midwest power plants from subsidiaries of American Electric Power

Talen Energy in its $1.6 billion sale to Riverstone

NRG in its $1.7 billion merger with GenOn to create one of the largest competitive power generators in the U.S., as well as in multiple acquisitions of generation and retail assets in ERCOT and other regions

Constellation Energy, in its $7.9 billion merger with Exelon to create the largest U.S. competitive power generator (with the nation’s largest nuclear fleet) and the second largest residential electricity and gas distribution company;

NRG Energy in rejecting Exelon's $6 billion 2009 hostile takeover bid

Healthcare

Teva Pharmaceuticals, in its $40 billion acquisition of Allergan’s generics business, securing clearance with the largest and most complex pharmaceutical divestiture in FTC history, and also in Teva’s 2016 acquisition of Allergan’s ANDA distribution business

Lifewatch AG in its sale to BioTelemetry, Inc. for $280 million, combining two leaders in wireless cardiac monitoring technology

Acorda Therapeutics in its $363 million acquisition of Biotie Therapies, a Finland-based biotechnology and pharmaceutics company

Swander Pace Capital in its sale of Insight Pharmaceuticals to Prestige Brands

Akorn, Inc. in its acquisition of VersaPharm

Danaher in its $2.2 billion acquisition of Nobel BioCare

Community Health Systems in its $3.6 billion acquisition of HMA to create the nation's largest for-profit hospital network

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of Allos Therapeutics, which was cleared with no remedies after a Second Request investigation

Consumer Products and Services

Vestar Capital, in the sale of Sun Products (all®, Sun®, Surf®, and Wisk® detergents) to Henkel, creating the second largest seller of detergents in the U.S.

Leap Wireless in its $4 billion acquisition by AT&T, which was cleared without a remedy after an extensive Second Request investigation

3G Capital, in its partnership with Berkshire Hathaway to acquire H.J. Heinz for $28 billion

Avis Budget Group, in its acquisitions of Zipcar and Payless and in FTC efforts relating to its proposed merger with Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group